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He accompanied the Earl of Essex on his * Islands ' 

 voyage of 1597. In 1598-9, on Essex's invitation, 

 he led a company of English volunteers to Ferara 

 to assist Don Cesare d'Este. The dispute was 

 settled by the time he arrived there, and he received 

 instructions from Essex to proceed to Persia to 

 obtain an alliance with the Shah against the Turks, 

 and to promote commercial intercourse. The enter- 

 prise was not officially sanctioned, and Sherley was 

 refused permission to return to England. He had 

 a kindly reception from the Shah Abbas the Great, 

 and after five months' stay returned to Europe as the 

 Shah's envoy in i 599. His appeal for permission to 

 return to England was refused, and he then went to 

 Venice and opened correspondence with Spain. In 

 April 1603 he was imprisoned for debt in an island 

 near Scio. In 1605 he went to Prague and was 

 employed by Rudolph II. on a mission to Morocco. 

 On his way back he went to Madrid, and was com- 

 missioned as general of a fleet to attack the Turks 

 and the Moors in the Levant and to hamper Dutch 

 trade. In 1609 his expedition sailed, but it was a 

 complete failure, and he was dismissed and dis- 

 honoured on his return. The King of Spain in 

 161 1 allowed him a small pension, and he remained 

 at Madrid in beggary until his death. The por- 

 trait is taken by permission of the Earl of Crawford 

 from a copy, in the Library at Haigh Hall, Wigan, 

 of the Atrium Heroicum Caesarum Regum Altarumque 

 Summatum ac Procerum by Dominicus Custos, printed 

 at Augsburg in 1600. 



Capture of Don Antonio de Berreo, . . . 352 



This engraving of the capture of Don Antonio de Berreo, 

 Governor of Trinidad, by Sir Walter Ralegh, is re- 

 produced from De Bry's Collections of Travels and 

 Voyages^ Grands {America) Voyages, Part VIII., Frank- 

 fort, 1599. 



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